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Message:: [QUOTE="NPCoin, post: 404862, member: 5629"]No it wouldn't. That's the whole point.  The coin would be MS-65 graded technically.  A weakly struck can grade MS-65 and above based on technical merit alone.  It is when you consider what the market is willing to accept, or market grading, when a coin weakly struck may not grade MS-65 or above. And you seemed to contradict yourself in your statement that it is agreeable that the coin grades MS-65 by technical standards, yet a weakly-struck coin cannot grade MS-65 under Technical Grading standards.  You attempted to illustrate technical grading using a market example.  That's not technical grading. I will add this also.  Market grading does not always overall lower a grade.  In fact, market grading will quite often raise the technical grade of a coin due to factors such as luster, strike, eye appeal, etc. I'm sorry, but your post actually confuses me, because you are using the terms technical and market utilizing the same example.  Here you state that the MS-64 is a market grade, while above you state it is a technical grade.  And the adjustments to the technical grade for such a coin is what we call market grading. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]